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Message to President Obama: There is No Free Lunch
Well, we just endured another nauseating, divisive, pie-in-sky, head-in-the-sand speech from Barack Obama. Also known as the President’s State of the Union speech, Obama regaled his Democratic...
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Does a Used Car Really Save?
Buy a used car and save tons of money. How many times have you heard it? It’s one of the top five suggestions on any “how to save money” article. It has become part and parcel of the frugalist...
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Do it Yourself? Know Your Limitations First.
Here is another one of those “no brainer” ideas for saving money: do it yourself. More than a long heralded principle of frugal living, “DIY” has become quite the vogue fad in the 21st Century. With...
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Myth Buster: Is a Bicycle a Practical Transportation Alternative?
A popular website that touts the virtues of simple and frugal living is Mr. Money Mustache. The site shares the philosophy of a thirty-something (maybe forty or so now) computer engineer who retired...
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So What Are Quality Frugal Transportation Choices?
If you read this blog, you already know the importance of thinking it through in order to make a choice that is not only frugal but practical. When it comes to transportation, for example, we see that...
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Secret “Shame” of the American Middle Class?
There’s a good article appearing on msn.com today concerning the “secret shame” of the middle class. Written by Neal Gabler for The Atlantic, it begins by revealing a surprising statistical find by...
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So why DO so many women support Hillary Clinton?
Oops, Donald Trump has done it again. He has enraged the women voters by saying that Hillary Clinton “plays the woman card” and suggesting that she would receive less than five percent of the vote...
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Why DO so many women support Hillary Clinton? (Part II)
Last week I posed the question why would a thoughtful, responsible woman support Hillary Clinton. Aside from the patent phoniness about her, the endless list of head-shaking lies, her red herring...
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Target – No Place for Bananas and a Larger Lesson in Frugal Living
I’m usually a big fan of Target, and I go there often for groceries. Like most people, I prefer to knock out all grocery shopping at once since it is one of those tasks I really dislike. As such,...
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Some Thoughts on the Utter Hell of Air Travel – with a particular shout-out...
If you do not believe in hell, you have little experience with air travel. Unfortunately, I have such experience, lots of it. I know painfully, horribly well the cycle of disappointment, frustration,...
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